Identification of Booth's body

[AussieMick]

Mike G wrote: "If the military commission had this boot in their possession long before “Booth” secretly had been buried beneath the flooring at the military arsenal, just how could that boot possibly have gotten back on the corpse being investigated at Weaver’s Undertaking Parlor in Baltimore, Maryland, in February 1869? "

One possibility ( there may well be others, but the most logical one to my mind) is ... that someone put a boot on the corpse.
Some people might think it indecent or improper for a corpse (that of a murderer or not) to be laid to rest with nothing on one foot. It would be quite normal for someone to obtain a boot, from perhaps a rubbish tip or whatever, and place it on the corpse. Putting it on would have been difficult ... and would probably require the boot to be slit. Makes sense to me. Plain common decency, I'd suggest.